Once you've made the decision to start a class blog and have formed some objectives, you will need to get permission from your principal. Hopefully, you won't encounter any resistance, but you might! If yours is the first blog in the school, your approach to the principal may require some careful planning and wording, depending on his/her tech know-how.
Tips for approaching your principal:
Put your suggestions to him/her in an email. This will allow you to present all of your ideas and reasoning at once, so they have time to digest and think about it.
Explain why you want to blog and how it will help your students.
Think about any potential problems/issues they may have and provide solutions for them in your email.
Provide them with links to blogs similar to the one you would like to create. If they are not familiar with classroom blogging, they may never have seen one in action.
Make a time to meet with him/her face-to-face after they've had time to think about your ideas.
If you suspect she/he will be particularly reluctant, contact another blogger and ask permission to give their contact details, and those of their principal, to your principal so they have the opportunity to discuss it with a school who is already blogging successfully.
Be prepared to compromise. It would be better to have a blog with restrictions, than to not have one at all. Perhaps, in time, the principal will allow more freedom as he/she sees how it works.
Getting permission to blog
Once you've made the decision to start a class blog and have formed some objectives, you will need to get permission from your principal. Hopefully, you won't encounter any resistance, but you might! If yours is the first blog in the school, your approach to the principal may require some careful planning and wording, depending on his/her tech know-how.
Tips for approaching your principal:
Be prepared to compromise. It would be better to have a blog with restrictions, than to not have one at all. Perhaps, in time, the principal will allow more freedom as he/she sees how it works.